It appears I was ahead of the curve in anticipating a major water shortage in Los Angeles. I cut watering my lawns to one day a week over the past two months. MWD wants a 35% reduction in consumption. My reduced watering resulted in a 30% reduction. The lawns are now half brown. Hot summers will likely mean a dead or very brown grass during the hot summer months.
While MWD brings water from northern California to Southern California the other project brining water here is from the Colorado River. That river is running dry too. The water is so low there that the intake valves below Hoover Dam can now be seen. Lake Powell on that river, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is drying up. If water levels at the lake were to drop another 32 feet, all hydroelectricity production would be halted at the reservoir’s Glen Canyon Dam.
Interestingly a desalination facility in Orange County California is being opposed by environmentalists.
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